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A Bad Trip in a Tired Whale

Product Description: An alcoholic man winds up in Florida after driving his mammoth Oldsmobile down from Oklahoma.

By David Holbrook

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9780759613799 | Authorhouse, March 1, 2001, cover price $20.23 | About this edition: An alcoholic man winds up in Florida after driving his mammoth Oldsmobile down from Oklahoma.

Case Against Pornography

Essays by experts in various fields examine the psychological, social, political, and cultural aspects of pornography to illustrate its negative impact

By David Holbrook (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780912050287 | Open Court Pub Co, June 1, 1973, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Essays by experts in various fields examine the psychological, social, political, and cultural aspects of pornography to illustrate its negative impact

Charles Dickens and the Image of Woman

Product Description: Why are the women Shakespeare created often so perplexing? Why do children fear witches in fairy tales? throughout literature these and other powerful and compelling images of women occur frequently: the enigmatic temptress, the supernatural goddess, and the earth mother...read more

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780814734834 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women?

Paperback:

9780814734742 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Why are the women Shakespeare created often so perplexing?

9780814735282 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women?

Charles Dickens and Woman

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780389209065 | Barnes & Noble Imports, June 1, 1991, cover price $57.00 | also contains Disney Pixar Inside Out: The Essential Guide

Children's Games

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780900406096 | Intl Specialized Book Service Inc, June 1, 1979, cover price $5.50

Children's Writings

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780521052849, titled "Children's Writings" | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1967, cover price $22.50 | also contains Jewish Ethical Values: A Sourcebook of Classic Texts and Their Practical Uses for Our Lives

Creativity and Popular Culture

Product Description: This book is an attempt to offer a fresh basis for critical discrimination in the field of popular culture. Holbrook believes that commercial culture has found ways of exploiting the natural needs of children for symbolic enrichment by using children's comics, "pop" lyrics, and other modes...read more

By David Holbrook

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9780838634738 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: This book is an attempt to offer a fresh basis for critical discrimination in the field of popular culture.

A Diplomatic Doctor

Product Description: As the Air France 737 landed on the worn runway of the Tan Sun Nhut airport in a western suburb of Saigon and approached the rundown terminal building, I knew we were not going to be welcomed with open arms. As we passed through the arrival room, the customs officers were not disagreeable...read more

By David Holbrook

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9780595364930 | Iuniverse Inc, October 30, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: As the Air France 737 landed on the worn runway of the Tan Sun Nhut airport in a western suburb of Saigon and approached the rundown terminal building, I knew we were not going to be welcomed with open arms.

Dylan Thomas: The Code of Night

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9781472508003 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $128.00

Edith Wharton and the Unsatisfactory Man

Product Description: St. Martin's Press 1991. Hardcover with dust jacket. No marks, no issues. Professor's private library.

By David Holbrook

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9780312035655 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: St.

Education and Philosophical Anthropology: Toward a New View of Man for the Humanities and English

Product Description: Alerts students and teachers in education and the humanities to the area of thought known as Continental or reflective philosophy. This book discusses the various disciplines included in this philosophy that come under the rubric of philosophical anthropology: philosophical biology, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and branches of postcritical philosophy...read more

By David Holbrook

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9780838632758 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $33.50 | About this edition: Alerts students and teachers in education and the humanities to the area of thought known as Continental or reflective philosophy.

Education, Nihilism, and Survival

Product Description: Under the influence of science, modern civilization has adopted the view that only things that can be verified empirically or arrived at rationally are true. Modern people tend to regard themselves as mechanisms, without any subjective aspects to their nature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Attarian (introduced by) and David Holbrook

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9780765807328 | Transaction Pub, October 1, 2001, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Under the influence of science, modern civilization has adopted the view that only things that can be verified empirically or arrived at rationally are true.

English for Maturity: English in the Secondary School

Originally published in 1967, this second edition of David Holbrook's powerful plea for a fresh approach to English in secondary schools redesigned the text and brought it up to date. Holbrook's work was rooted in the British educational system, but attracted wide interest throughout the world.

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780521052863 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1967), cover price $27.95 | also contains Masking and Unmasking Ourselves: Interpreting Biblical Texts on Clothing & Identity | About this edition: Originally published in 1967, this second edition of David Holbrook's powerful plea for a fresh approach to English in secondary schools redesigned the text and brought it up to date.

Paperback:

9780521094658 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 1967), cover price $31.50

English for the Rejected

Product Description: This 1964 book examines the treatment of below average children in the British education system. In the secondary schools of Britain children were divided at 11 plus into the academic and non-academic, and sent accordingly to grammar and secondary modern schools...read more

By David Holbrook

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9780521092159 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1964, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: This 1964 book examines the treatment of below average children in the British education system.

Evolution and the Humanities

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780312003791 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1987, cover price $39.95 | also contains Beautiful Dogs: Portraits of Classic Breeds

Flesh Wounds

By David Holbrook

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Paperback:

9780907675761 | Reprint edition (Ashford Pr Pub, March 1, 1990), cover price $10.95

Further Studies in Philosophical Anthropology

Product Description: Book by Holbrook, David

By David Holbrook

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9780566054198 | Gower Pub Co, June 1, 1988, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Book by Holbrook, David

The Gold in Father's Heart

Product Description: Paul Grimmer tells the story of his childhood, from the age of three, when he climbed a ladder on a building site and found he couldn't move! He needed his mother then, as he does later, but his mother wasn't always up to a big crisis...read more

By David Holbrook

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9781853894428 | Large print edition (Dales Large Print, June 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Paul Grimmer tells the story of his childhood, from the age of three, when he climbed a ladder on a building site and found he couldn't move!

Gustav Mahler and the Courage to Be

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780306760952 | Da Capo Pr, July 1, 1981, cover price $47.00 | also contains Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability

9780854782437 | Da Capo Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $27.50

Human Hope and the Death Instinct: An Exploration of Psychoanalytical Theories of Human Nature and Their Implications for Culture and Education

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780080157986 | Reprint edition (Pergamon Pr, October 1, 1971), cover price $72.95 | also contains Mourning Dove

Images of Woman in Literature

Product Description: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine" Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile...read more

By David Holbrook

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9780814734605 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women?

In Search of the Mountain of God: The Discovery of the Real Mt. Sinai

Two men recall their inspiring story of the search for the biblical Mt. Sinai--a journey that took them trespassing into military installations late at night and other dangerous locales. (view table of contents)

By Robert Cornuke and David Holbrook

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9780805420524 | B & H Pub Group, June 1, 2000, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Two men recall their inspiring story of the search for the biblical Mt.

9780756765569 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 2000, cover price $22.00

Iron Honey Gold

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780521362597 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 25, 1988), cover price $18.95

Nonsense Against Sorrow: A Phenomenological Study of Lewis Carroll's "Alice" Books

Product Description: In this fascinating study, Holbrook draws on Carroll's own letters, as well as the work of 20th-century psychoanalysts, to step inside Alice's looking glass and examine what the books reveal about the author's own desires and conflicts and his relationships with those around him...read more

By David Holbrook

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9781871871494 | Open Gate Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: In this fascinating study, Holbrook draws on Carroll's own letters, as well as the work of 20th-century psychoanalysts, to step inside Alice's looking glass and examine what the books reveal about the author's own desires and conflicts and his relationships with those around him.

The Novel and Authenticity

Product Description: A thought-provoking work, The Novel and Authenticity examines such novels as Austen's Mansfield Park, Forster's A Passage to India, and Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to demonstrate its thesis. The reader will come away from this book with a new perspective on the novel and on contemporary literary theorizing...read more

By David Holbrook

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Hardcover:

9780389207115 | Barnes & Noble Imports, September 1, 1987, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: A thought-provoking work, The Novel and Authenticity examines such novels as Austen's Mansfield Park, Forster's A Passage to India, and Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to demonstrate its thesis.

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